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Appeared on: Thursday, May 23, 2013
NVIDIA Brings The Titan GPU To Gamers With The GeForce GTX 780

NVIDIA today introduced the GeForce GTX 780 GPU, an $650 graphics card and a follow-up to last year's GeForce GTX 680 based on a cut-down GK110 GPU, which first launched into the prosumer space with GTX Titan earlier this year.

In addition, NVIDIA has released to production the
NVIDIA GeForce Experience software, which delivers to
GeForce gamers drivers, advanced features and optimal playable settings
(OPS) with the convenience of single click operation.

Designed for gaming enthusiasts, the GeForce GTX 780 boasts a Kepler GPU
with 2,304 cores and 3GB of high-speed GDDR5 memory. The GeForce GTX 780
is based on the same GK110 GPU found in the Nvidia Titan, but with fewer
functional units. Titan?s 14 SMXes have been reduced to just 12 SMXes,
reducing the shader count from 2688 to 2304, and the texture unit count
from 224 to 192. Other than that, the GTX 780 comes with all 48 ROPs tied to a 384bit
memory bus just as Titan does. However, while the memory bus is the same
width, NVIDIA has dropped Titan?s 6GB of RAM for 3GB.

Whereas GTX Titan had a base clockspeed of 837MHz, GTX 780 is clocked
slightly higher at 863MHz, with the boost clock having risen from 876MHz
to 900MHz. Memory clocks meanwhile are at 6GHz, giving GTX 780 the full
288GB/sec of memory bandwidth.

Titan had a 250W TDP and so does GTX 780.

GTX Titan

GTX 780

GTX 680

GTX 580

Stream Processors

2688

2304

1536

512

Texture Units

224

192

128

64

ROPs

48

48

32

48

Core Clock

837MHz

863MHz

1006MHz

772MHz

Shader Clock

N/A

N/A

N/A

1544MHz

Boost Clock

876Mhz

900Mhz

1058MHz

N/A

Memory Clock

6GHz GDDR5

6GHz GDDR5

6GHz GDDR5

4GHz GDDR5

Memory Bus Width

384-bit

384-bit

256-bit

384-bit

VRAM

6GB

3GB

2GB

1.5GB

FP64

1/3 FP32

1/24 FP32

1/24 FP32

1/8 FP32

TDP

250W

250W

195W

244W

Transistor Count

7.1B

7.1B

3.5B

3B

Manufacturing Process

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 28nm

TSMC 40nm

Price

$999

$649

$499

$499

The GTX 780 is a gaming/consumer part so it does not feature the uncapped
double precision (FP64) performance found at the Titan. So although you
can expect the GTX 780 can offer 90% of GTX Titan's gaming performance,
it will offer a fraction of GTX Titan?s FP64 compute performance.

The card also supports NVIDIA's latest array of gaming technologies,
including PhysX and NVIDIA TXAA, while the newest GeForce drivers reduce
frame time variations to provide smoother frame delivery.

To satisfy gamer demands for customization and overclocking options, the
GeForce GTX 780 includes NVIDIA GPU Boost 2.0 technology, which
automatically increases the GPU's clock speeds, while adding temperature
target and fan controls, as well as extra over-voltage headroom and
optimizations for water-cooling solutions.

The NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 GPU is available now from Nvidia's add-in card
suppliers, including ASUS, Colorful, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte,
Innovision 3D, MSI, Palit, PNY and Zotac. Pricing is expected to start at
$649 - about 50% more expensive than the GTX 680. We remind you that the
flagships GTX 690 and Radeon HD 7990 offer much better gaming performance
for much higher prices ($1000) and that the next-closest card below GTX
780 will be the GTX 680 and Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition.

GPU Pricing Comparison - May 2013

AMD

Price

NVIDIA

AMD Radeon HD 7990

$1000

GeForce GTX Titan/GTX 690

$650

GeForce GTX 780

Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition

$450

GeForce GTX 680

Radeon HD 7970

$390

$350

GeForce GTX 670

Radeon HD 7950

$300

The GTX 780 is estimated to deliver an average of 90% of Titan's gaming
performance for 65% of the price. It is also 80% faster than the
GTX 580. And since AMD is not offering a card at thais price range,
Nvidia's latest card is offering 20% more the performance of the more
affordable AMD Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition ($450).

Available exclusively to GeForce gamers, the NVIDIA GeForce Experience,
now released to production, automatically configures the 3D setting for
each game to ensure the best experience based on the system
configuration. It notifies gamers of software updates and automatically
installs GeForce Game Ready drivers.